Ebeltoft
The town of Ebeltoft is famous for its slanting half-timbered houses, winding streets with cobbled stones and blooming hollyhocks, which all makes the town ooze charm from every corner
Ebeltoft town
A 700 year old town with well-preserved town centre. Ebeltoft offers many opportunities for experiences: Museums and art galleries as well as a large shopping area.
700 years' history
The market town of Ebeltoft is part of the National Park. The main street in well-preserved downtown Ebeltoft is Adelgade. It runs parallel to the coast and opens out to a square at its southern end.
Here stands The Old Town Hall, which is renowned far and wide. It was built in 1789 and was in use as a town hall up to 1840. Today, it houses part of the Museum of East Jutland. Adelgade and its extensions after the square, Overgade and Nedergade, offer the best routes for discovering old buildings.
Adelgade also offers speciality shops and restaurants. Jernbanegade (railroad street) intersects with Adelgade. From 1901 to 1968, the railroad stopped at Ebeltoft.
Museums
- The Museum of East Jutland in The Old Town Hall and the building behind it.
- Farvergården, Adelgade 15.
- Fregatten Jylland (the frigate Jutland).
- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (glass museum)
Ebeltoft Habour
Lively harbour area
Ebeltoft boasts an authentic and lively harbour area. The area is divided into several small harbours stretching around 2.5 kilometres from the beaches to the north to the yachting harbour, Skudehavnen, to the south.
The harbour area also contains speciality shops, restaurants and cafés. There is a bathing jetty at the yacht harbour
Ahl Hage
Sand and shallow water make Ahl Hage (spit) south of Ebeltoft a popular destination for families with children. A quiet walk on the flat spit is spiced up with the vista of Mols Bjerge across the water.
Birdwatching
A yellow-dot route will take you through the landscape along the shallow water that attracts foraging wading birds and ducks hunting for lugworms and mussels.
Ant hills
The flat area east of the forest includes salt meadows with large humps: the ant hills of the yellow meadow ant. These ants keep aphids as livestock. They move the aphids from plant root to plant root and milk them for honeydew. In the old days, farms of the town grazed their cattle and swine on the spit.
Practical information
Car park on Ahlvej, 8400 Ebeltoft.
Disabled-friendly route. Read more about disabled-friendly facilities in the National Park (in Danish)
Egil Fischer´s Village
One of the first holiday villages
There is a holiday atmosphere at Femmøller Strand, attracting people from near and far. Mols Bjerge and Ebeltoft have always had a special attraction for people from the larger city of Aarhus some 40 kilometres to the south-west. This was also the case in the early 1900s: a period of considerable significance for the area, with holiday and scout camps springing up so that the city people could visit the countryside. It was also during this period that a seaside hotel was built at Femmøller (1909) and land was parcelled out for holiday homes in the areas closest to the coast.
The Egil Fischer buildings
Architect Egil Fischer (1878-1963) was among the people who saw opportunity in the sandy hills. In the years 1922-23, he bought the area and designed a complete holiday village with roads and avenues, land plots, green areas and a sports ground at the centre.
The village stretches all the way to the water. He planned two squares. On one of the squares, he built an inn, Molskroen, which stood complete in 1924. Around 200 houses of considerable preservation value remain in the area today, including the eight houses that Egil Fischer finished designing and building. That was all he managed to complete in the 20 years of construction up to the Second World War. In 1957, he donated the entire area to Ebeltoft Municipality, which sold off the individual land plots.
Kirkebakken (Church Hill) in Egil Fischer's holiday village is a special place, with a lovely view. But some people may be puzzled that there is no church on the hill with its name. The church exists only on paper - it was planned, but never built. Instead there is a memorial stone with a bust, erected in 1963 after Egil Fischer's death.
Bjørnkær/Egedal Forests
The young forest of Ebeltoft
The young forests of Bjørnkjær/Egedal Skovene are replanted forests where the original forests had been entirely cut down in around 1690. The forests were restored during the Second World War in 1940-45 in connection with an unemployment project.
The forest for dogs
The forests are very popular among dogs and their owners. There is a fenced-in off-leash dog park. Furthermore, there is a 3.5-kilometre yellow-dot route through hilly terrain. Leaflets about the history of the forests are available at the site.
Tolløkke Forest
Just outside Ebeltoft is the small and cozy Tolløkke Forest. Take a walk around the forest's two and a half kilometres hiking trail and enjoy the old oak and beech trees in their autumn colours. Here National Park Mols Bjerge works to return the old production forest to a more wild and natural forest, to the delight of birds, bats, insects and the many special plants that grow here.
Old love in Tolløkke Forest
And if you are curious about old love stories, the beech trunks are in many places scratched and carved with hearts, names and dates, testifying that the forest was once the favorite refuge of Ebeltoft citizens who had just fallen in love.
Anemones in the spring
In the spring the blooming anemones dress the forest.
Suggested starting place: Parking lot, Skovalleen, 8400 Ebeltoft